tectum argenti (2022)

Joanna Byrne, 8 mins, 16mm film: digitised | Commissioned by Loose Screw Film Festival | now distributed by New York Filmmakers’ Cooperative

A moving meditation on the process of therapeutic healing through reconnecting with the self in nature: shot, home-processed and hand-edited on silver-rich Fomapan black and white reversal film. Internal and external landscapes intertwine in an assemblage of fractured but interconnected poetic gestures, multiple exposures, textural images, and abstract marks made onto the surface of the celluloid - evoking the often difficult (but at times euphoric) personal journey of coming out and healing from the past.

screening + EXHIBITION:

Upcoming:

Gravitational Lensing, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA

2024:

On Queerness + Ecology, London, 27-30 September [group exhibition]

Illumination, Folk House Darkroom, Bristol [group exhibition]

New Year, New Work @ New York Filmmaker’s Coop, NYC

Analogue Ensemble: Desaturated, Ramsgate (UK)

Queer Beach, Brighton, 29 January-11 February [group exhibition]

2023:

Kinoskop, Belgrade (Serbia) International Competition

Strangloscope, Itajai (Brazil), Official Selection

25FPS, Zagreb (Croatia) - International Competition

SeaChange Film Festival, Isle of Tiree

Braziers International Film Festival, Braziers Park (UK) Official Selection

Crossroads 2023, San Francisco Cinematheque (US) Official Selection

SunUp, Otley, West Yorkshire [group exhibition]

2022:

Loose Screw Film Festival, The Art House, Wakefield Art Walk (film installation).

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